24 January 2012

Now a days WordPress hacking is becoming common and common over 2011-12. I have also mentioned some 12 useful ways to secure our WordPress blogs in effective way in my previous post. Therefore today, we will learn how to scan any WordPress blogs with WPScan which means WordPress Security Scanner to hack websites easily. First of all I would like to clear some things about WPScan. Well! WPScan is a vulnerability scanner which checks the security of WordPress installations using a black box approach written in ruby language, sponsored by RandomStorm and hosted by Googlecode. It provides you an easy way to penetrate wordpress blogs using blackbox techniques and methods.

What WPScan will provide you for your hacking?

List of plugins

Name of theme

Weak password cracking (multithreaded)

Brute force username

Directory listings

Version details

Possible vulnerabilities etc..

How to install WPScan?

Download:

Please download the latest version of WPScan from our Subversion (SVN) code repository by issuing the following command:

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